femtofox/Getting_started.md

Femtofox - Getting Started

This guide assumes a certain level of familiarity with Meshtastic, and Meshtastic nodes.

The Femtofox is similar to, and can functionally replace, a Raspberry Pi Linux Native Meshtastic node. However, the Foxbuntu OS takes away most of the heavy lifting of a typical install, leaving you free to build your mesh application without the initial hurdles.

Hardware

To get started, you will need a Femtofox. You can either build or buy one.

1. Building a Femtofox

Femtofox Community Edition (CE) is provided as standard PCB Gerber files and suitable Bills of Materials (BOM) and Pick and Place files Simply download the Gerber